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DISTRICT OF LAKE COUNTRY
BYLAW 479
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A BYLAW TO IMPOSE A PARCEL TAX ON THE OWNERS OF REAL PROPERTY IN THE BARKLEY ROAD SPECIFIED AREA WATER SYSTEM
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WHEREAS under the provisions of Section 200 of the Community Charter, the Council of the District of Lake Country may, by bylaw, impose a parcel tax to provide all or part of the funding for a service;
AND WHEREAS under the provisions of Section 202 of the Community Charter, the Council of the District of Lake Country may, by bylaw, direct the preparation of a parcel tax roll for the purposes of imposing a parcel tax;
NOW THEREFORE, the Council of the District of Lake Country in open meeting assembled enacts as follows:
1. In this Bylaw, unless the context otherwise requires:
“Parcel” means any lot, block or other area in which real property is held or into which it is sub-divided.
“Group of Parcels” means where a building or other improvement extends over more than one parcel of land, those parcels, if contiguous may be treated by the Assessor as one parcel and assessed accordingly.
2. The service for which the tax is imposed is for the Barkley Road Water System pre-design study.
3. A parcel tax roll for the Barkley Road Water System is hereby directed to be prepared, consisting of those properties included in the District of Lake Country Barkley Road Water System Specified Area Establishment Bylaw 453, 2003.
4. The tax is imposed for three (3) years, up to and including the year 2006.
5. The parcel tax is imposed on the basis of a single amount for each parcel on the Barkley Road Water System parcel tax roll.
6. The parcel tax shall be levied on each parcel or group of parcels of real property within the Barkley Road Water System parcel tax roll.
7. The parcel tax roll and every revision thereof shall be considered and dealt with by a Parcel Tax Roll Review Panel appointed pursuant to Section 204 of the Community Charter.
8. The parcel tax rate is $206.70 per year, unless the owner or previous owner of the parcel has elected to commute the total charge of $573.61 on or before May 14, 2004.
9. This bylaw may be cited as the “District of Lake Country Barkley Road Water System Parcel Tax Bylaw 479, 2004”.
READ A FIRST TIME this day of , 2004.
READ A SECOND TIME this day of , 2004.
READ A THIRD TIME this day of , 2004.
ADOPTED this day of , 2004.
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Mayor Clerk, Deputy
I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and correct copy of the Bylaw cited as “District of Lake Country Barkley Road Water System Parcel Tax Bylaw 479, 2004”, adopted by the Municipal Council on , 2004.
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Dated at Lake Country, BC ____________ Clerk, Deputy
